Petrol Ration Will Stay Put

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 109, 9 May 1941, Page 7

Petrol Ration Will Stay Put

UNLESS SOMETHING UNFORESEEN HAPPENS ttr Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. “You can take it that the Government’s present policy will be to stay put with the present allowance for private owners for two months at ien.3t unless something unforeseen in tho international situation interrupts supplies,” said Mr. W. R. Carey, president of the South Island Motor Union, at a meeting of the executive of the union to-night. Mr. Carey had reported earlier in committee on the national conference representative of petrol-consuming interests held in Wellington recently at

the request of the Government to consider petrol cuts. He said that the re- ( Auction a half a coupon a month which . had recently been made would save an- | other 400,000 gallons a month, it was ( proposed further to cut down the supply j to owners with special licences. Trans- . port services would not be unduly cur- , tailed at the moment. Local bodies , would be circularised with a request 1 for a voluntary reduction in their con- ; sumption while Government Depart- • ments were to bo asked to make cuts j also and a further attempt would be 1 made to reduce by zoning methods the 1 consumption of petrol in trade deliveries. t